Family Law/Estate Planning

Where a Land Court judge found that a July 2001 deed from a mother to a defendant son was not enforceable against the plaintiff daughter, that decision must be affirmed based on the judge’s finding that an acknowledgement of the ...

Where a judge terminated a mother’s parental rights, a remand must be ordered to provide a schedule for posttermination and postadoption sibling visitation. “The mother appeals from decrees of the Juvenile Court adjudicating her three children, Ukari (born in October, ...

Where a Probate & Family Court judge erred by (1) awarding a divorced woman insufficient alimony without explanation, (2) directing the parties’ counsel to equalize funds taken from the marital estate in order to pay counsel fees and (3) dividing ...

The Supreme Judicial Court has vacated the appointment of a “parent coordinator” in a divorce case. “[P]robate court judges possess the inherent authority to refer parties to a parent coordinator in appropriate circumstances in order to conserve limited judicial resources ...

Where a Probate & Family Court judge appointed, over objection, a “parent coordinator” with binding authority to resolve conflicts in implementing the custody and visitation provisions of a divorce judgment, the judge exceeded the bounds of judicial authority. “… We ...

Where a Probate & Family Court judge ordered a divorced woman to pay her former husband $25,000 in legal fees after both parties had appealed from their divorce judgment, the fee order must be vacated as unauthorized. “… The wife ...

Where a divorced man moved to vacate three Probate & Family Court judgments, a remand is necessary because the record does not indicate that any action was taken on the motion. “… By judgments dated December 3, 2012 (entered December ...

The doctrine of collateral estoppel did not bar a man’s tort action against his ex-wife based on conduct addressed in their divorce judgment, the Appeals Court has ruled. The plaintiff husband sued the defendant wife in Superior Court for abuse ...

The town of Wayland could be required to enroll a divorced man’s son in its public schools, even though on most school nights the child slept at his mother’s home in another community pursuant to the terms of a shared ...

Where an estate of a motorist who died in an accident has moved for an accounting of the assets of the defendant estate, the motion must be denied because the wrong party was named as the defendant. “… Amnon Bogomolsky ...